Publications by authors named "Yu-Ming Deng"

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  • Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) microplastics are a major environmental and health concern due to their long-lasting nature, prompting research into their degradation.
  • Scientists engineered a bacterium, Stenotrophomonas pavanii JWG-G1, to overproduce a PET-degrading enzyme called DuraPETase, achieving significant degradation of PET microplastics at room temperature.
  • This research highlights the potential of using engineered bacteria for degrading microplastics in various environments and offers a new approach for environmental cleanup technologies.
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Tuberculosis caused by complex (MTBC) is one of the major infectious diseases in the world. Identification of MTBC and differential diagnosis of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) species impose challenges because of their taxonomic similarity. This study describes a differential diagnosis method using the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) measurement of molecules released by species.

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